Top 59 Quotes About Hersh
#1. And Kristin Hersh made total sense on 4AD. There was something wide-eyed and extraordinary about her, something emotional and visceral, something basic and yet complex.
Martin Aston
#2. I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence.
Kristin Hersh
#3. It's shades of Vietnam again, folks: body counts.
Seymour Hersh
#4. I would go to radio stations and they were supposed to be interviewing me and playing my record and they would say, We're playing too many women right now, we can't play your record.
Kristin Hersh
#5. My parents didn't treat me as if there was anything in the world I couldn't do, except be unkind.
Kristin Hersh
#6. I felt like it was a great secret when I found out that I could be in my 30s.
Kristin Hersh
#7. I don't like what the radio plays for the most part.
Kristin Hersh
#8. Good taste - that's all you really need when you're playing an instrument.
Kristin Hersh
#9. The general assumption, which I think is a valid one, is that a lot of the major media were on their heels a little bit and prone to share the grief of the nation and to give Bush all the support it could.
Seymour Hersh
#10. I guess I'll just slip into the studio after the next time with the Muses, and then just keel over and die.
Kristin Hersh
#11. The neoconservatives are a small circle, and they're all sort of holding hands as they develop their policy, and outsiders aren't allowed. If you agree with the guys on the inside, you're a genius. If you disagree, you're a traitor, a pariah, you're an apostate, and you're not allowed in.
Seymour Hersh
#12. I can tell you one thing: It doesn't matter what the American people think. There's going to be an awful lot more body bags.
Seymour Hersh
#13. Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage.
Kristin Hersh
#14. We need a day of the dead. That's a perfect celebration.
Kristin Hersh
#15. I don't know whether God talks to him or whether he's trying to undo what his father did. But he believes in the mission. The body bags aren't going to deter him. Public dissent isn't going to deter him. He's going to go ahead. And that's more frightening.
Seymour Hersh
#16. You have to follow every melodic line, every emotional idea, or you don't get your money's worth.
Kristin Hersh
#17. I don't have the inclinations that other people seem to have as far as the business is concerned.
Kristin Hersh
#18. With a metal heart
I came to this life,
My head was a crucible, full of elixir.
Pearl by pearl
My heart was poured,
Drop by drop
My head was splashed.
The world was entirely a magnet.
Hersh Saeed
#19. I'm a better American than 99% of the guys in the White House.
Seymour Hersh
#20. I don't mind what the market is, but why is it vapid? If they're such a bunch of idiots, why don't you show them good music instead? They're not going to know the difference.
Kristin Hersh
#22. If you're the band leader you ask more of yourself than anyone else, so they tend to raise the bar for me.
Kristin Hersh
#23. I grew up in a commune where no one considered me female, particularly.
Kristin Hersh
#24. I'm beginning to think I have two years encountering sexism without really realising it.
Kristin Hersh
#25. Most of the younger people I knew didn't seem to have a handle on things; they hadn't found their place, they didn't understand how the world works, they didn't understand how to treat other people, and they didn't know how to stop thinking about themselves.
Kristin Hersh
#26. You started with a broken heart and blamed everyone you met after that for breaking it.
Kristin Hersh
#27. The issue, then, is not, What is the best way to teach? but, What is mathematics really all about? ... Controversies about ... teaching cannot be resolved without confronting problems about the nature of mathematics.
Reuben Hersh
#28. We have this wonderful capacity in America to Hitlerize people. We had Hitler, and since Hitler we've had about 20 of them. Khrushchev and Mao and of course Stalin, and for a little while Gadhafi was our Hitler.
Seymour Hersh
#29. I always thought Henry Kissinger was a disaster because he lies like most people breathe and you can't have that in public life.
Seymour Hersh
#30. It doesn't matter that Bush scares the hell out of me. What matters is that he scares the hell out of a lot of very important people in Washington who can't speak out, in the military, in the intelligence community.
Seymour Hersh
#31. The idea of photographing an Arab man naked and having him simulate homosexual activity, and having an American GI woman in the photographs, is the end of society in their eyes.
Seymour Hersh
#34. I'm worried about people who say Bush is lying. It's much more frightening that he's not lying, that he believes what he believes: that it's his mission to change the Middle East into a democracy. That's more unnerving.
Seymour Hersh
#35. To do it nationally or internationally, you have to follow a few more rules.
Kristin Hersh
#36. Bush can talk about 100,000 people wanting to go work in the police or in the army. It's because there's nothing else for them to do. They're willing to stand in line to get bombed because they want to take care of their family.
Seymour Hersh
#37. The songs become the show, which is how it should be.
Kristin Hersh
#39. We're going to be really ashamed of ourselves when this whole story about Guantanamo comes out. Guantanamo is a really depraved place ...
Seymour Hersh
#40. We didn't really swallow much of the Jesus thing, but we got the vocab.
Kristin Hersh
#41. That's my dream job, to be able to mail songs out to people who want to hear them. Paste my face on them and not travel all over the world trying to sell them.
Kristin Hersh
#42. If Americans thought music and art belonged together, they wouldn't have the Grammys.
Kristin Hersh
#43. My brother and I were meditating before we were 6 years old, having to stare at the wall and chant.
Kristin Hersh
#44. If Bush had gone into Iraq for cynical reasons, we could cut our losses now. What's frightening is that he did it for ideological reasons, and therefore he's not going to get out. So it isn't ultimately about oil or about Israel, it's about a belief.
Seymour Hersh
#45. The government of Brazil had publicly proposed brokering a settlement between the United States and Cuba; Raskin, never afraid to speak his mind, suggested that the White House consider the offer. "Oh, no," Bundy said. "It'll take just one detachment and he'll be out of there.
Seymour M. Hersh
#46. Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say.
Kristin Hersh
#47. Having a financial adviser enables the investor to carry a psychological call option. If the investment decision turns out well, the investor takes the credit, and if it turns out badly, the regret can be lowered by blaming the adviser.
Hersh Shefrin
#48. No drug is a cure, though. Drugs are just big pieces of tape they stick over warning lights.
Kristin Hersh
#49. Reality looks much more obvious in hindsight than in foresight. People who experience hindsight bias misapply current hindsight to past foresight. They perceive events that occurred to have been more predictable before the fact than was actually the case.
Hersh Shefrin
#50. The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion.
Kristin Hersh
#51. I have a theory in life that there is no learning. There is no learning curve. Everything is tabula rasa. Everybody has to discover things for themselves.
Seymour Hersh
#52. The reality is that Qaddafi has been trying to talk to us about his weapons system for years, and we ignored him. The Libyans even came to me about two years ago and offered me a chance to go through their facilities because they couldn't get anybody's attention here.
Seymour Hersh
#53. The National Security Adviser is supposed to be an arbiter of policy and open minded in internal debates. But the playing field was never balanced. It was always tilted toward Rumsfeld's position, which is obviously the same as Bush's.
Seymour Hersh
#54. I have to play as much of the game as I allow myself to get the music heard. But it's not unlike the rest of the world, so I'm not as up in arms about it as I could be.
Kristin Hersh
#55. you, but how do you feel about me?" he wondered.
Joseph Hersh
#56. Men are allowed to write songs about people and women are allowed to write songs about women.
Kristin Hersh
#57. Now I know I'll never be numb again. A mother is condemned to feel everything forever. And I'm finally afraid, condemned to fear everything forever. But that makes sense: feel someone else's pain, feel someone else's everything.
And he's my baby, so everything's okay.
Kristin Hersh
#58. When we fail, we cut the string. Then God ties it up again, making a knot and thereby bringing us a little closer to Him. Again and again our failures cut the string, and with each additional knot God keeps drawing us closer and closer.
Sharon A. Hersh
#59. In Vietnam, our soldiers came back and they were reviled as baby killers, in shame and humiliation. It isn't happening now, but I will tell you, there has never been an American army as violent and murderous as our army has been in Iraq.
Seymour Hersh
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